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Nelly Furtado: Embracing the Single Life

Wed, 13 Nov 2024

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Join Alex in the studio for an interview with Nelly Furtado. Nelly opens up about her recent, painful breakup and shares how she’s having more fun being single and dating than she ever did in her past. She also reminisces on what inspired her most iconic songs and gives her take on break up sex, the importance of confidence, and what she calls “flingationships.” Enjoy!

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Chapter 1: What does Nelly Furtado think about being single?

2866.448 - 2882.599 Nelly Furtado

I always say, like, you put flowers together at a flower shop. It's like, why do you like those flowers, right? And I think it's also, like, whatever goes together. And it's, like, a bit like a fashion collection, just kind of putting it together. I love it. One session I had had, like, a bunch of different people who, like, didn't even necessarily make music.

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2882.639 - 2898.93 Nelly Furtado

Like, I think at one time, like, a comedian ended up in there, this girl. And I was like, oh, what you got? Like, I'm very, like, I'm a hippie that way. Like, if you were there, I would make you sing. No. Yes. I believe anybody can write a song. I've done that before. I've done like art shows.

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2898.95 - 2904.133 Alex Cooper

Wait, let's do it right now. How do you start writing a song? Like where does you even start?

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2904.193 - 2910.657 Nelly Furtado

I'd be like, what's your favorite childhood vacation you went on? Oh, shit.

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2911.478 - 2913.119 Alex Cooper

Oh, like Disneyland.

2913.139 - 2914.3 Nelly Furtado

See how it's got you in your feels?

2914.36 - 2915.28 Alex Cooper

Yeah, I'm like, oh my God.

2915.3 - 2916.121 Nelly Furtado

So we start there.

2916.141 - 2917.141 Alex Cooper

Okay, Disneyland.

Chapter 5: What does Nelly Furtado think about dating Canadian vs. American men?

1814.844 - 1830.189 Alex Cooper

maybe I just am not as sexual of a person as I want it to be or maybe I don't feel as empowered to like own it and it's really like if you know the more you know yourself the more you'll know what you enjoy and the more that you'll feel confident to be able to explore but it's almost like it's a quiet game you know what I mean Yes.

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1832.11 - 1839.974 Alex Cooper

You're just on the search for whatever like makes you feel your best and no one can tell you and you shouldn't ever search for it through someone else.

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1840.755 - 1856.023 Nelly Furtado

No, I mean, I think people can teach you, you know, like I think you can grow in relationships. Like I think you can grow and you can kind of like pick up things as you go and like that ebb and flow again. But at the end of the day, yeah, you got to feel, you got to feel good.

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1856.323 - 1859.864 Alex Cooper

You got to feel good. Right. Um, Do you fall in love easily?

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1861.065 - 1889.317 Nelly Furtado

I'm changing. I used to. Yes, Alex. And? I'm a lover. I love love. I need muses. I'm a muses girl. Like I need, I think it's because I'm an artist. I'm a writer. I create. And it's like, I grew up thinking and just feeling like I'm, I love like lovers. Like I love to, I love the idea of being just really inspired and the joy in dating and like that. It's like there's nothing like that.

1889.357 - 1908.381 Nelly Furtado

But I also enjoy my solitude so much that I have had people ask me, like friends, like colleagues, like, Why are you even in a relationship? You have so much going on in your mind. You should just date yourself. How are you even able to be with someone? And it is true. I like my solitude so much that sometimes it is hard for me to be in a relationship. Because I'm just like, ugh.

1908.821 - 1909.621 Alex Cooper

Get away from me.

1909.801 - 1919.423 Nelly Furtado

It's too hard, yeah. It's like I've always felt more comfortable to be more like an enjoyable kind of like, I'm not going to say part-time. I don't know what to say.

1919.483 - 1922.864 Alex Cooper

No, what was the thing you said earlier? I don't know. A flip relationship? No, a...

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